Thursday, September 24, 2009
Meanwhile - in Fantasyland - Wind Power
I'm all for alternative energy sources; BUT, they have to pass the test of common sense.
Read this article and then try to convince yourself that this idea has any chance of becoming reality.
Of course, if you're a governor, you probably won't see what I see...
Read this article and then try to convince yourself that this idea has any chance of becoming reality.
Of course, if you're a governor, you probably won't see what I see...
This is part of a Republican American website article:
"The E-126 also is a NIMBYs nightmare. Now under development in Europe, the E-126 stands an imposing 650 feet — the tallest building in New England, Boston's John Hancock Tower, is 790 — and has three, 413-foot blades. Each E-126 goes for $15.5 million, installed, and comes with an engineered base that is 100 feet across and 13 feet thick to keep the wind from blowing the tower over. Because of the E-126's immensity, the world's largest crawler-type crane is required to assemble it.
Last week, the New England Governors' Conference raised green fantasy to new heights with the release of its Renewable Energy Blueprint, which said the region 'has a significant quantity of untapped renewable resources, on the order of over 10,000 MW combined of on-shore and off-shore wind power potential.' Neither the report nor the news articles about it bothered to do the math. At 7 MW, New England would need 1,429 E-126s to tap that potential. Though the turbines likely would be clustered in 'farms,' that's an average of 238 per state, or more than one for each town in Connecticut. The cost would be $221 billion that the states don't have, though they might get a bulk-purchase discount of a billion or two."
